India, Aug. 6 -- The body of Vikram Mubayi, an Indian-origin PhD student who went missing during a solo hiking trip in California, has been found.

According to Daily Nexus, the student-run newspaper of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), his body was recovered on the evening of August 3 in the Big Pine Lakes area of Inyo National Forest.

Vikram Mubayi was born and raised in Hong Kong and loved sports and spending time outdoors.

He was entering the fifth year of his PhD in chemical engineering at UCSB. Before joining the university, he earned a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2022.

At UCSB, Mubayi researched bacteria and other biological methods to b...